Talk by William Pederson on “Abraham Lincoln As America’s First Green President”

Though more books have been published on Abraham Lincoln than any otherdemocratic political leader in worldhistory, they tend to focus on his democratic leadership during the American civil war rather than his deep “Green” proclivities. Yet Lincolnin an early, significant step advancedthe greening ofAmerican culture by establishing a Department of Agriculture to support scientific farming in theUnited States. He also signed the transformative Land Grant College Act, which created the first public colleges that contributedto expanding the emerging American middle class.

He also incorporated the National Academy of Science. In 1864 he signed theYosemite Valley Act that led to the U.S. national park system. His sense of wonder and awe at nature was reflected in his appreciating trees, witnessing the natural energy of Niagara Falls, and becoming an amateur astronomer. An asteroid is named for him. Lincoln’s over-arching democratic legacy was promoting the greening of individual dignity in a green universe.

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About Speaker

William D. Pederson

A native Oregonian, William Pederson was born and reared in Eugene, home of the University of Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees. After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned to the University of Oregon to complete his graduate work in political science. He accepted his first university faculty position in 1977 and became the holder of the first endowed chair at LSUS. In late 1982, Dr Pederson became the founding director of the International Lincoln Center at Louisiana State University Shreveport. Today the multidisciplinary program includes an annual Abraham Lincoln Lecture (which in 1999 became the first LSUS event televised by C-SPAN); an annual Constitutional Democracy Lecture; the South’s oldest presidential conference series; and the annual Washington, D.C. semester (the first independent one established at a public university in the South). Widely published, Dr Pederson’s works include numerous books and articles with an emphasis on the presidency; the first cross-national study of prison camp revolts; and comparative politics.